Spanish women travelers at home and abroad, 1850-1920 : from Tierra Del Fuego to the Land of the Midnight Sun /

Spanish Women Travelers acquaints English-speaking readers with the travel writings of eleven extraordinary women, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Carmen de Burgos, Rosario de Acuña, Carolina Coronado, Emilia Serrano, Eva Canel, Fernán Caballero, Princesses Paz and Eulalia de Borbón, Sofia Casanova, and Mother...

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Main Author: Wood, Jennifer Jenkins, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg, [PA ] : Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press ; Rowman and Littlefield, 2014
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cecilia Böhl de Faber (born Morges, Switzerland, 1796-d. Seville, 1877): The Therapeutic Value of Travel
  • Carolina Coronado (born Almendralejo, 1820?-d. Lisbon, 1911): A Melancholy Traveler
  • Emilia Serrano, Baronesa de Wilson (Granada, 1833?-d. Barcelona, 1923): The Bard of the Americas
  • Rosario de Acuña y Villanueva (born Madrid, 1850 or 1851-d. Gijon, 1923): Spanish Mountain Landscapes
  • Emilia Pardo Bazán (born La Coruna, 1851-d. Madrid, 1921): Discovering Spain and Her Place in the World at the Turn of the Last Century
  • Eva Canel (born Coaña [Asturias], 1857-d. Havana, Cuba, 1932): A Spanish Patriot in the Americas
  • Sofia Pérez de Casanova (born 1861 or 1862, Almeiras [Galicia], Spain-d. 1958, Poznan, Poland): Poland and Russia through Spanish Eyes
  • Princess María Eulalia de Borbón (Madrid, 1864-Fuenterrabia, 1958): A Spanish Princess in the Americas
  • María de la Paz de Borbón, Princess of Spain and Princess of Bavaria (born Madrid, 1862-d. Munich, 1946): A Royal Pilgrim
  • Carmen de Burgos Seguí (born Almería, 1867-d. Madrid, 1932): World Traveler and First Spanish Woman War Correspondent
  • Spanish Missionary Nuns in Africa: The First Voyage of the Conceptionist Sisters to Fernando Po (Spanish Guinea), 1884-1885.